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Patients with infectious diseases are treated at the Hà Nội-based National Hospital of Tropical Diseases. The Government has launched a national action plan to prevent and control hospital infections through 2020. - VNA/VNS Photo Dương Ngọc Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Việt Nam’s national action plan for prevention and control of hospital infections between 2016 and 2020 will focus on improving effectiveness at health facilities to ensure patient and staff safety. The plan, issued yesterday at a conference held in HCM City, aims to improve policies, technical processes and professional documents. Accordingly, more than 80 per cent of hospitals in the country will have standard sterilisation units by 2020. Currently, 46.5 per cent lack the units. Software, tools and a database for a national surveillance system on control of hospital infections will be set up in 2017. More than 50 per cent of provincial-level hospitals will carry out surveillance and will … [Read more...] about Gov’t issues plan to curb infections in health centres

Rockefeller Foundation helps Can Tho with resilience By Huynh Kim A view of the Can Tho Resilience Strategy Release Workshop on June 19. Can Tho City has partnered with 100 RC to kick off the city’s resilience strategy – PHOTO: HUYNH KIM CAN THO – Can Tho City has partnered with the 100 Resilience Cities (100 RC) – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation to kick off the city’s resilience strategy, which is the first to be geared toward a fast-growing city in the Mekong Delta. Speaking at a Can Tho Resilience Strategy Release Workshop on June 19, Dr. Nguyen Hieu Trung, chief resilience officer for Can Tho, said that the Can Tho resilience strategy is aimed at addressing challenges and difficulties related to environmental degradation, flooding, climate change, urbanization and unemployment. Can Tho vice chairman Dao Anh Dung told the Saigon Times that the Rockefeller Foundation has given US$100 million in aid to 100 cities worldwide, including Can Tho, to conduct … [Read more...] about Rockefeller Foundation helps Can Tho with resilience

Parliamentary review of year used to plan for 2010 period (19-10-2005) National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An delivers opening speech at the session. — VNA/VNS Photo Dung Sang Son La Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Da River under construction in the northern mountainous province of Son La. — VNA/VNS Photo Xuan Truong Nation expects record growth Viet Nam this year expects to attain its highest growth rate during the past five years, Khai said in his report at the eight session of the National Assembly yesterday. The collective economic sector has gradually overcome difficulties, and seen positive changes, while the private sector has attained impressive growth rates. Trading and services have also made important contributions to the country’s socio-economic achievements, to job generation and poverty reduction in particular. The foreign-invested sector has reported satisfactory development, making more contributions to the … [Read more...] about Parliamentary review of year used to plan for 2010 period

VN, Belgium plan 2007-2010 aid efforts (12-03-2007) HA NOI — Viet Nam and Belgium have signed a document determining the general direction of co-operation between the countries over the 2007-2010 term. The document was signed Friday in Brussels by Planning and Investment Deputy Minister Cao Viet Sinh and Belgian Development Co-operation Minister Armand De Decker. It was inked during the fifth Viet Nam-Belgium Joint Committee session, which was aimed at reviewing bilateral ties and formulating future development strategies. In the 2007-2020 plan, Belgium will provide 32 million euros in aid that will concentrate on helping Viet Nam develop its human resources. The plan also looks at water supply management, environmental protection, health care and education. In addition, the two sides will also focus on strengthening local State and Government institutions, and improving public services, as well as infrastructure facilities in rural area aimed at alleviating … [Read more...] about VN, Belgium plan 2007-2010 aid efforts

Party elites wrap up session with directions for 2009 plan (06-10-2008) Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh spoke at the closure of the Communist Party Central Committee’s eighth session. — VNA/VNS Photo Dinh Xuan Tuan HA NOI — The eighth plenary meeting of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee (CPVCC) ended on Saturday. During three days of meeting, the CPVCC discussed the country’s socio-economic performance of the 2008 and the draft 2009 plans including State budgets. In its communique released on Saturday, the CPVCC stated that the country had been implementing its 2008 socio-economic plan amid complicated economic developments domestically and globally. The country initially made important achievements including the taming of inflation, macro-economic stability and good economic growth. Due attention has been given to social welfare, education-training, health care, culture, information and environmental protection, the CPVCC … [Read more...] about Party elites wrap up session with directions for 2009 plan

Party leaders have big plans for Thanh Hoa, Ba Ria-Vung Tau (21-12-2005) President Tran Duc Luong and delegates at the Party congress in Thanh Hoa Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Pham Van Tiep PM Phan Van Khai delivers a speech at the Party congress in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province. — NA/VNS Photo The Thuan Thanh Hoa — President Tran Duc Luong set three major tasks for Thanh Hoa Province’s Viet Nam Communist Party Committee yesterday. The president, who was addressing the central province’s Party Congress, said these were: Economic development; Party building; socio-cultural development and environmental protection. He asked that citizens from all of the province’s ethnic groups accelerate economic development so that it was no longer poor by 2010 and industrialised by 2020. The president emphasi-sed the need for the Party to guide development of the provincial economy where it was strong with ready markets. Opportunities to invest in its … [Read more...] about Party leaders have big plans for Thanh Hoa, Ba Ria-Vung Tau

Government In Action (22-02-2007) Salt production plans approved Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved Salt Production and Development Schemes to 2010 and 2020, calling for salt producers to bring into full play local natural conditions and apply advanced technology to raise productivity and effectiveness. Developing salt production must be in connection with rural development, restructuring of labour and job creation, Dung said. The major goals of the schemes are to ensure sustainable development of salt production, meet demands for salt for supporting living and industry, gradually reducing imports and increasing exports of salt and products made of salt, stably increase employment and improve the living standards of people who make a living from salt production. The total salt production area nationwide is expected to stand at 14,500ha, including 6,000ha of industrial sites, and productivity is projected to reach 1.5 million tonnes by 2010. The Prime … [Read more...] about Salt production plans approved

HA NOI — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved proposals to fight traffic congestion in Ha Noi at a meeting between the Government and municipal leaders yesterday. They agreed on a number of measures including the introduction of congestion charges in certain areas and increases in motor vehicle registration and parking fees. Other proposals to incorporate major transport projects such as urban railways, flyovers and a metro into national targeted programmes, and raise fines against traffic law violations also received a nod from the Government head. To contain the flow of people to the city centre, which has put increasing pressure on urban transport, the city leaders recommended co-ordinating with the Ministry of Public Security to take special measures on residence management. Ha Noi People's Committee chairman Nguyen The Thao said they will also introduce step by step measures to ban certain types of vehicles from the city's streets. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh … [Read more...] about PM okays plans to fight capital’s traffic congestion

NA hears 5-year land plan not implemented correctly (19-05-2006) HA NOI  — Many provinces were yet to revise land-use plans according to the 2003 Land Law and several districts and communes have either failed to implement the 2001-05 plan thoroughly or carry out evaluation in a timely manner, said NA Economic and Budgetary Committee at the ongoing session of the National Assembly in Ha Noi. The committee made these observations at the presentation of a government report delivered by Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Mai Ai Truc of the five-year land-use plan for 2006-10 yesterday. The committee’s appraisal report, delivered by Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Kien, said that these were problems that had adversely impacted the implementation of the 2001-05 plan and the ones that need to be tackled during the new plan period. The 2005-10 plan, which had addressed the shortcomings of the earlier one and based on NA’s land-use recommendations for 2010, needs to be … [Read more...] about NA hears 5-year land plan not implemented correctly

Donors support development plan (12-06-2006) Speaking at the closing session of the mid-year review of donors to Viet Nam, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem commended the success of the meeting and again confirmed the strong commitment of the Vietnamese Government in the successful implementation of the new Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan, aimed at reforming and completing the nation’s legal framework, ensuring greater integration with the global and regional economy, and improving ODA efficiency, as well as in implementing anti-corruption measures. NHA TRANG —Donor countries and international organisations pledged their continued support for Viet Nam’s socio-economic development plan (SEDP) during the next 5 years, while the Government confirmed its strong commitments to speeding up reforms at a mid-year review meeting that wound up in Nha Trang City last Saturday. World Bank country director for Viet Nam, Klaus Rohland, said he supported Viet Nam’s … [Read more...] about Donors support development plan